Week 7 Homework

This weeks Boggle...

Classes have the week to find as many words as they can in the grid, according to the following rules:
The letters must be adjoining in a 'chain'. (Letter cubes in the chain may be adjacent horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.)
Words must contain at least three letters.
No letter cube may be used more than once within a single word.Whilst looking for as many words as possible is a good strategy, it is worth bearing in mind that longer words score more highly, so one 5-letter word is worth two 4-letter words.
The scoring is as follows:
Fewer than 3 Letters: no score
3 Letters: 1 point
4 Letters: 2 point
5 Letters: 3 points
6 Letters: 4 points
7 Letters: 6 points
8 or More Letters: 11 points
Note: Although the 'Qu' cube occupies a single space in the grid, it counts as two letters for the purpose of scoring.
Full credit is awarded for both the singular and plural forms of a noun provided you list them as separate words, so cat and cats each score a point. The same is true for all other derived forms (e.g. chew, chews, chewed, etc.).
If a word appears more than once in the grid, it may not be counted twice.
Any dictionary word is allowed. As in most word games, you will not receive credit for proper names, abbreviations, contractions, hyphenated words, or foreign words that Mr K can't find.
Words within other words are permissible. This can be a valuable fact to remember, for if you spot the word part, you can also write down par and art. In this case, it is also a word in reverse: trap.
A good knowledge of anagrams will help. If you notice the letters S, T, O, and P arranged in a 2x2 square, you will be able to write not only stop but also opts, tops, spot, post, and pots, scoring a total of 10 points.

Homework Week 6...

This week, your activity is to find 5 interesting words and make a baldadash out of them...remember a baldadash is a word with 4 options for meanings...EXAMPLE...

Scolionophobia

· (A) Fear of colours

· (B) Fear of food

· (C) Fear of school

· (D) Fear of computers

By Darna and Susan

Well done to the following people who completed this weeks homework...Alex :), Lexi (on her blog well done, Jasmine F (on her blog, )Billy :), Arna, Kayla (on her blog - well done), Victoria, Tash, Susan (on her blog), Ryan

and again, the following people did not do their homework...Rhys - none all term; Jake, Keanu (none all term), Luke, Jolene (none all term), Laquesha (none all term, Tere (none all term), Henry (only done one homework all term), Wilton not finished, Mapu, Jasmin (none done this term), Abby, Brooke, Kit (none handed in this term), Nikolai, Roxanne, Jack and Cherokee.

Week 5

Well, half way through the term this week.
Very few students completed the last homework activity, so I am 're-building' on that and am sending home an emergency home plan for students to fill in with their parents.

I am now a member of the Red Cross Emergency Response Team...so am undertaking training in Emergency Reponse and Rescues...fascinating stuff...but i must say learning how to tie 8 different types of knots was certainly a challenge. I have just completed a weekend course, one of many...though have to miss the next one on swift water rescue (which I would definitely prefer to do in Summer!! anyway)

Check out http://www.getthru.govt.nz/ for more info...

take care

Trish

WELL DONE TO THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE WHO DID THEIR HOMEWORK...Ryan, Alex, Lexi, Roxanne, Jasmine F and Tash. Only 6 out of 31 people in the class :(...